The central bank needs to see further progress on inflation or weakness in the labor market to resume interest rate cuts.

U.S. prices increased in December while consumer spending surged, suggesting that the Federal Reserve could delay cutting ...

U.S. economic growth slowed in the fourth quarter as a strike at Boeing depressed business investment in equipment, but ...

The author examines the money supply represented by M2, the Federal budget deficit, the Fed’s previous adventures with QE, ...

Fueled by rising debt levels, interest costs are expected to surpass defense spending for the next decade. In 2035, the adjusted deficit will ... which the US is on the verge of hitting, or ...

Three key questions are lurking for bonds related to inflation, tariffs and the US government’s growing budget deficit. Click ...

Donald Trump will enter office with big plans to make his 2017 tax cuts permanent, solve a generational migration crisis, beef up the U.S. military ... a smaller government budget deficit.

The chart below shows the 5-year annual % change of the U.S ... government spending. As such, increases in the deficit are directly correlated to slowing economic activity and declining inflation.

The first is to view the inflation-adjusted value of the dollar and claim it has less purchasing power today than in 1900. While this is a true statement, it assumes that the U.S. is ... required ...